11,500 CHF
Eugène LeCoultre, a Genève, No. 2274, circa 1875.Fine and unusual 18K gold keyless minute-repea-ting watch with unusually constructed chronograph. Four-body, "bassine et filets", back decorated with applied silver figures, sea monsters, flower vase on matted gold background, reeded bezels and band, gold hinged cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost seconds track, five-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk seconds. Blued steel "Louis XV" hands. Notes Eugène LeCoultrewas a very skilled maker who invented a special chronograph system with a clutch wheel. In 1980 he won the Geneva Observatory Timing Contest (with watch No. 2370), in 1881 he won a bronze medal at the Concours de Chronomètres.He was most likely the father of Marius, who invented, among other things, the well-known "boules de Geneve".
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-11-16
